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Unification Minister urges China to protect defectors from North

South Korean Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho called on China to facilitate the relocation of North Korean defectors to a country of their choice and protect their human rights at a conference held in Washington on Monday (local time).

2023.11.7

Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho speaks at a parliamentary audit of the Unification Ministry at the National Assembly in western Seoul on Wednesday. [YONHAP]

Unification minister urges caution on ending military agreement with North

South Korea needs to comprehensively consider the security situation in deciding whether to suspend the 2018 military tension reduction accord with North Korea, Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho said Wednesday.

2023.10.11

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Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho speaks during a meeting with representatives of civic groups that advocate the return of South Koreans presumed to be held against their will in North on Aug. 3. [YONHAP]

Unification Ministry cuts staff amid deep freeze with Pyongyang

Seoul’s Unification Ministry said Wednesday it plans to reduce staffing in departments that oversee inter-Korean exchanges in order to downsize amid a deepening freeze in relations with Pyongyang.

2023.8.23

Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho speaks during a meeting with representatives and relatives of South Koreans who have been abducted and detained by North Korean agents. The South Korean government estimates approximately 516 South Koreans are being held against their will in the North. [YONHAP]

Unification minister rules out end-of-war declaration

Newly-appointed Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho declared Thursday that the Yoon Suk Yeol administration would “never” seek a formal declaration ending the Korean War, saying it would hamper efforts to bring home South Koreans detained in the North.

2023.8.3

An elderly woman reaches out for a photo of a family member taken by North Korea at the National Memorial Hall of the Korean War Abductees in Paju, northern Gyeonggi, on June 28. [YONHAP]

Human rights groups call on Seoul to address North's captives

Advocates of individuals held involuntarily in the North released a letter to President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday, urging him to raise the issue at his summit at Camp David with U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

2023.8.2

Lee Dong-kwan, the nominee for chairman of the Korea Communications Commission, speaks to reporters at the Yongsan presidential office on Friday. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

Yoon taps special adviser as Korea Communications Commission chief

President Yoon Suk Yeol named Lee Dong-kwan, his special adviser for external relations, as the new chief of the state broadcasting watchdog, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC), the presidential office announced Friday.

2023.7.28

The road to the South Korean-built Kaesong Industrial Complex, which once symbolized inter-Korean economic cooperation and political reconciliation, as photographed on Monday [YONHAP]

Calls grow for South to get tough on deadbeat North

A conservative lawmaker on Wednesday called on the next unification minister to pursue more “forceful” ways to make Pyongyang cough up more than $1 billion in unfulfilled debt obligations to Seoul.

2023.7.12

Yoon says ministry should stop being 'support agency' for North

Changes in the Unification Ministry's focus and approach to North Korean affairs are expected following remarks by President Yoon Suk Yeol that it should stop “acting like a North Korea support agency.”

2023.7.3

Unification Ministry does not support North Korea, Yoon says

The unification that we should aim for is a unification where all citizens from both North and South could live better lives and a humane life, Yoon said. Kim Yung-ho known for his hardline stanceas was picked as the Unification Minister nominee.

2023.7.2

Kim Yung-ho, the unification minister nominee, speaks to reporters Friday in front of the Office of the Inter-Korean Dialogue in Jongno District, central Seoul, his temporary office to prepare for a parliamentary confirmation hearing. [YONHAP]

Unification Minister nominee Kim lays out his Pyongyang roadmap

Unification Minister nominee Kim Yung-ho said that past inter-Korean agreements need to be "selectively" reconsidered in his first press briefing Friday.

2023.6.30